1 Dec
2004
1 Dec
'04
2:27 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:47:08AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
I think coming to Linux (in some form) would be less
trouble than what
they suffered going to Windows based on leveraging OS X.
Maybe for the core stuff but for the UI, i.e. the vast majority
of the code, they'd have a lot to do.
Unless current protools is already based on some portable toolkit,
which I highly doubt - given the history of the app I would bet there's
a pile of code for MFC, another pile for Cocoa or whatever
it's called, and a pile of reusable cross-toolkit stuff in the middle.
Supporting a third platform would mean either moving everything
to a cross-platform toolkit or adding a third huge pile of toolkit-specific
code.
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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com